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My only question, was there only one ever? It seems implausible that it would be unique
by Shivetya 10y ago
My only question, was there only one ever? It seems implausible that it would be unique
- abecedarius 10y agoNo. Archimedes for instance is known to have built orreries and written a lost book on "Sphere-making", apparently this topic. Cicero reported seeing one that the Roman general responsible for conquering Syracuse took back as loot. We don't know just how much these had in common with the Antikythera device. https://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Sphere/SphereIntro.html https://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Sphere/SphereIn...